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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
DeLay: 'We took a whipping last night'
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who resigned to defend himself against Texas money-laundering charges related to campaign finances, said Wednesday the GOP lost their House majority and other key elections because not enough Republicans came out to vote, and leaders failed to "articulate what we believed in."
"We took a whipping last night, and we understand that," DeLay said on CNN's "American Morning." CNN is projecting that Democrat Nick Lampson has won the House District 22 seat vacated by DeLay, by defeating Republican Shelly Sekula-Gibbs, whom Republicans added to the ballot as a write-in candidate when the courts refused to delete DeLay's name. |
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